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Silverstone Temjin 5 (TJ05)

The Silverstone Temjin 5 is a hybrid combination of form and function. Taking a mini-server style steel chassis with aluminum wave style faceplate and combining it with a glossy enthusiast finish, Silverstone offers up the best of both worlds. Featuring lots of room for expansion, an acrylic side Window, Back lit blue front LCD with fan control, and a tooless design. This extended ATX case could be the perfect gaming rig, Overclocking rig or just your clans own mini-server. It''s high quality finish and roomy interior defy you to pin it to a category.

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Zalman Fatal1ty FS-C77

Zalman expands its line of fine copper flower coolers into the gaming and modding arena with the "Fatal1ty" FS-C77 cooler. This cooler is one of many new enthusiast products to be given the "Fatal1ty" brand. The FS-C77 is geared towards gamers and hardware enthusiast who want not only the fastest running but the coolest looking computers to show off at LAN events. Though there are many after market products out there that do this, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel is really the first person to move into this market with name recognition and a wide array of products under his brand. But don''t let the branding and the flashy colors fool you, this cooler can perform. Read on to see how well it does against a stock FX-55 cooler and another high end copper after market cooler.

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Sapphire X1800XT Performance Edition

Sapphire burst into the high end graphics arena with both barrells blazing with their X1800XT "Performance Edition". This card delivers 512mb of GDDR3 Memory running at 1.5Ghz, and the powerful R520 core clocked at 700Mhz. This 2 slot high end PCI-E graphics card utilizes Shader Model3.0, HDR, and adaptive AA, allowing you to have unparralled Image Quality along side High Performance. If that wasn''t enough Sapphire includes a great bundle, "Avivo" Technology, and support for digital and analog displays, including HDTV.

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OCZ EL DDR PC-3500 Gold GX

OCZ is a name synonymous with performance and when it comes to Memory they are also synonymous with overclockability. OCZ Technology introduces the EL PC-3500 Gold Gamer eXtreme Series as the latest addition to the Gold Series line of Memory sticks. These two 512mb DDR 433 duel channel memory sticks come with super tight timings and high end performance all under a “lifetime warranty”, even if overclocked. Looking for an upgrade? With special features like OCZ’s “Extended Voltage protection” and “Ultra Low Noise” it’s hard not to seriously think about making the next memory upgrade choice OCZ.

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Fatal1ty FS-V7

In this review we will look at the Zalman Fatal1ty FS-V7 Graphics Card cooler. The Fatal1ty FS-V7 is a two slot copper cooler marketed toward gamers and PC enthusiast alike: with Red Copper fins, Anodized RAM sinks, and a Red LED fan it definitely has the bling appeal. It also comes with the ability to run on 12v in "Performance Mode" as well as a 5v "Quiet Mode" for those of you audiophiles who are gamers as well.

But does this cooler have what it takes to cool the High Clock, High Heat GPU cores out today. That''''s exactly what I intended to find out. Read along as I try out the FS-V7''''s cooling capabilities against an X1800XTPE''''s stock 2-slot cooling solution.

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Work Logs

Sapphire E3 Demo PC '06 (Page 1)

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Sapphire wanted another case for E3 again this year. Again giving me NO time to do it justice they wanted a cold theme for another blizzard cooler. After some discussion with Cathy at Sapphire we came up with a glacier theme. Here is a general idea of what the case will look like.

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This is the side image. The Front, top and back are all going to be plexi as well. Frosted with Fellow Austin Modder Fanatics spray can method. I am going to leave the area where the mobo is viewed unfrosted so you can see it clearly. The rest will look like Ice.

here is the internal layout of the case.

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I am going to have extension cables running from the mobo down the front to a back panel. I will figure that out when I get to it.

Here is one of the side panels printed and cut out. It is leaning up against the Cooler Master cooler Sapphire wants me to use for the CPU. The case is a bit smaller than I imagined so let's hope all the hardware fits in there.

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Speaking of hardware here is a list of what I believe will be in it. Some of it I requested others Sapphire did.

AMD FX-57
Pure Crossfire PC-A9RD580 MB
2 X1900XTX cards with blizzard cooelrs in X-Fire
74gb WD Raptor
2GB Ram Unknown brand at this time
Pioneer Slim Line DVD with SATA bridge board

The process to get the shape cut out around the print is fairly simple. First I printed out the design onto plexi with my flat bed printer and then coated it with some frog juice (clear coat for ink). Once that was dry I printed a pattern with vinyl and hand cut it on 1/16" polystyrine. This was my guide for the pin router.

The Guide.
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Once both sides were cut out I began measureing and cutting the bottom, top, front and back pieces. The top was originally going to be flat but I was feeling ambitious and decided to bend it to the shape. Very similar to how my UTMOd was done.

Some pieces of 3/16" plex that will become the structure.
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and here we have Mr. bender.
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Some pics of the bent pieces. Again sorry for no pics of me doing it. Both myself and Lancer forgot our cameras yesterday.

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As you can see the back goes flat there. That is where there are 2 -120mm exhaust fans will be mounted. I also wanted keep enough room back there for a radiator. Although this thing isn't going to be watercooled because of all the noobs handleing it I thought I would leave it open for the upgrade option.

You may also notice that there are two pieces. These two pieces will be connected with an Acrylic hinge. The front section will lift up giving "whoever" the ability to get to the hardware inside, let people take pics, whatever. That was the one complaint about my shiny cube...to hard to take pics of the hardware in it. What? They said they wanted it to be "Top Secret".

The next step was to make some acrylic L-Brackets to assemble the case with. I can weld some of the case together but the sides with the ink on the inside cannot be welded through the ink. So I will have to use screws to attach the sides to the rest of it.

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Before I started glueing things together I wanted to put the holes in the top for the 120mm fans. I did this useing a guide I had left over from Project13.

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It's basically temporarily taped on so I can cut it out with the pin router. Once attached we trace the holes with the bit.

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This is similar to what I did to the sides but that template for the glacier design was more complex.

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Beeeeauuuutiful

Next I welded the L-Brackets to the main structural pieces.
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I welded these brackets to the bottom and the top and then started to get unfocused. So I went home and played. It's always better for me to leave before I start to screw things up.

This week I will hopefully get it all put together and have the Mobo tray put in as well. By then I should have most of the hardware. Then its time for some fancy wiring, Lighting and painting.

stay tuned.

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